"Besar la lona" by Antonio Carreño has arrived

A brilliant coup in poem format, a hymn to the losers, to the secondary actors, to the vanquished... Because there is also epic in defeat. This is the theme of Antonio Carreño's second collection of poems entitled "Besar la lona".

Once again, Aguilar, a Penguin Random House publishing house, accompanies Antonio Carreño in this new literary work in which the author from Alicante vindicates, through brilliant writing and with a powerful punch, the importance of the second plane, the epic of defeat, the greatness of the secondary actors and the losers. Because "learning to fly requires many hours on the ground", as Carreño himself indicates in one of his most characteristic phrases.

"On one side of the ring, with blue shorts and almost 6,000 trillion tons, the world.

And on the other side is you.

You sense an unequal fight.

And it's true: you're going to end up kissing the canvas.

But maybe after reading this book you will be able to see it with my eyes:

Kissing the canvas is not falling, it is thanking the ground".

This is the declaration of intentions of the book of poems by way of synopsis-review of Antonio Carreño's latest work. 

Kutxi Romero, the musician and composer of the band Marea, has participated in the prologue, summarising what Antonio Carreño's latest poetic work has to offer: "I have to admit that, at this stage of the performance, I thought it was unthinkable that any poetic meteorite would make an impact on me, but the bastard Antonio has done it. In the centre of the chest. Touché (...) After swallowing Antonio's tongue hypnotised, I have the sensation that Carreño was there from the first moment, right next to me, the two of us in the shadow of the triumphant triumvirate, but that, paradoxically and inexplicably, we had never met our gazes".

Antonio Carreño returns to the literary scene with his second collection of poems "Besar la lona". Something very remarkable for the writer born in Alicante in 1986, who studied veterinary medicine and whose life has "changed his plans" to end up immersed in the marvellous world of literature and poetry.